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I use Firefox on Ubuntu.

I installed espeak.

When I use Narrate, Firefox reads a text with robotic espeak voices.

I installed Mbrola with french voices.

I can use espeak + mbrola on cli:

espeak -v mb/mb-fr1 "parlez vous français ?"

And get more realistic voices.

But firefox only uses espeak voice.

How to force Firefox narrate to use Mbrola voices?

GooDeeJAY
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Yukulélé
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To have more realistic voices with Firefox you could use festival, instead of mbrola. It has quite a few sets of voices available.

You could even use festival with mbrola voices.

The interface between Firefox and speech-dispatcher seems not robust. Current state of affairs may have evolved a bit, I am not able to test now. YMMV.

Related:

  1. How can I change the voice used by Firefox Reader View (Narrator) in Ubuntu?
  2. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=237718
sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio
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It is possible to put the Espeak/Mbrola voice by modifying the /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf file.

We need to Uncomment this line:

AddModule "espeak-mbrola-generic"    "sd_generic"   "espeak-mbrola-generic.conf"

And change parameter DefaultModule from espeak-ng to espeak-mbrola-generic

DefaultModule espeak-mbrola-generic
Yukulélé
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